Vandals attack crippled surf club

Vandals have defaced the Moore Park Surf Life Saving Club near Bundaberg, in south-east Queensland, just one day after its retaining wall slipped into the sea.

Members arriving at the club yesterday found "incompetent idiots" and another message calling for the committee to resign scrawled in paint across the building.

High tides and wild weather washed away parts of the club's outdoor eating area and eroded the patrol building's foundations the day before.

Deputy club captain Scott Boon says he is shocked by the graffiti.

"We had the supporters club graffitied - we had 'incompetent idiots' written on one side and we've had the committee told to stand down in disgrace on the front of the surf club for the whole public to see," he said.

"It's quite disheartening and it's really depressing to know that the community doesn't see our services as sufficient and also that we are somehow meant to have the power to hold back the ocean.

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